Recursive Minds

topic posted Fri, January 16, 2004 - 11:34 AM by  x
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"Recursive ability is uniquely human and effects more than just our language, but most of our behaviour," says renowned primate language expert David Premack, who wrote an article accompanying the study published in Science. "For example, in a classroom we often see child A watch child B watch child C watch the teacher. But in chimps, we see chimp A watch its mother, chimp B watch its mother, chimp C watch its mother..."

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